My friend Paul directs a really cool video podcast at betterbadnews.com. It’s a sort of satirical news show kinda thing reflecting on the state of American media and politics. Check it out, it’s good.
It’s also the first video blog I’ve come across. It’s cool that it works in iTunes. The video plays in the [...]
Nitro is another web framework written in Ruby. It seems a little simpler and has some unique advantages.
Ourmedia.org is a non-profit web site that will let you upload your files and they’ll host them on their web site and archive them, forever. And it’s completely free.
There’s some videos that looked kind of interesting actually. With today’s technology even amateurs can put together something that looks have way decent. Some is very [...]
CSS Zen Garden is a great resource for ideas when coming up with a new web design. But I always found the interface a little hard to deal with. The link locations change with each new design, so you have to search for the link and remember which ones you’ve already looked at.
Well I just [...]
Ruby on Rails can be a useful tool to create static sites as well.
After migrating my home server from Red Hat to Gentoo, I was hoping I could just copy over my Apache config file and turn it on. After sorting out a few Gentoo specifics, I got Apache to load by virtual host file. As I feared, something was funky with my Red Had Apache installation, so [...]
A sign of the coming apocalypse.
My mom says maybe she’ll get a tattoo on her chin that says “My kid went to private school.”
Here’s an interesting video put out by the Inglewood Police Department in 1961. It’s an attempt to try to educate young boys about child sex offenders, except they refer to the sex offenders as “homosexuals”. Some of the scenes kinda reminded me of Mysterious Skin, the men picking up boys in the park. My favorite [...]
The typewriter keyboard was originally laid out alphabetically but, because the original typewriter was so crappy, the keys would stick if you typed too fast. Their solution was to put lots of effort in to rearranging the keys so that letters used together were farther apart, causing you to type slower. They succeeded when people [...]